Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [verb] two " in BNC.
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1 | Powell and Pressburger could n't find the stories that expressed what they wanted to say to a contemporary audience , Reed suffered a loss of nerve after making two exceptional films with Graham Greene ( Fallen Idol and The Third Man ) . |
2 | ‘ You ca n't erase a lifetime of habit by spending two weeks in the sunshine . ’ |
3 | GrandMet has lost a lot of froth since giving two warnings in just a month of less than fizzing profits . |
4 | In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family . |
5 | One has just come out of prison after doing two years for bodily harm . |